Benefits
Simulation is the most accurate way to optimize forecasting and capacity planning
Simulation reveals bottlenecks and ensures that resolving one can lead to substantial productivity increases
Simulation quantifies the effects of dispatching and scheduling systems to support precise production planning
Simulation enables risk-free, cost-efficient assessment of capacity and process changes
Key Capabilities
Semiconductor Front-End Manufacturing Features
Semiconductor front-end manufacturing is one of the most complex systems in manufacturing due to wafer-lot assignments, complex routes with recurring process steps, and volatile tool availability. SYSTEMA Fab Simulation includes essential front-end features as standard functions to streamline process simulations, including:
- Wafer-lot-assignment and modeling
- Realistic flows with unlimited process steps
- Recurring process flows
- Critical queue timers
- Scraping and rework
- Lot-Tool dedication
- Cascading and batching tools
- Scheduled and unscheduled tool downtimes
- Lithography modeling
- Counter- and timer-based tool qualification
- Pod scheduling
- Worker simulation with qualifications and availabilities
- Multiple logistics abstractions
Bottleneck Prediction & Advanced Planning
When Fab Simulation is integrated with SYSTEMA APS, the APS user interface shows the predicted production schedule, easily highlighting bottlenecks and idle tools.
SYSTEMA Fab Simulation allows comparison of multiple factory scenarios, allowing planners to forecast operational performance, identify potential bottlenecks, and optimize capacity planning. Whether you’re focused on short-term KPIs or long-term strategic planning, insights into future production dynamics help ensure smoother production dynamics and prevent costly disruptions. Easily connect to SYSTEMA Advanced Planning & Scheduling to maximize fab performance.
Integrated Logistics Modeling
The Fab View User Interface visualizes the vehicle movements in the logistics graph network of the simulation, indicating areas with high track loads and potential bottlenecks
With automated material handling systems (AMHS) often becoming bottlenecks in fabs, SYSTEMA Fab Simulation offers the option to integrate your tool and logistics layout into the simulation with a graph layout based approach, helping you model transportation and storage processes. By simulating logistical constraints and improving transport efficiency, fabs can better predict and eliminate logistical bottlenecks before they impact production.
Customer-Centric Implementation
Our goal is to enable independent use of SYSTEMA Fab Simulation. Our experts support clients through crucial phases of simulation projects, providing targeted assistance with modeling and system analysis. With our standardized modeling process and over 30 years of semiconductor expertise, we ensure that you can easily adjust models for changing fab dynamics and meet your business goals.
SYSTEMA equips users with the right documentation and parameterization tools to adjust models to changing fab dynamics. Common changes, such as equipment updates or product mix adjustments, can be implemented easily by modifying input parameters without changing the model itself. For major changes, SYSTEMA offers model audits and custom development projects.
Evolution to the Digital Factory Twin
SYSTEMA Fab Simulation’s predictive features are foundational to creating a digital factory twin. By integrating with SYSTEMA’s Equipment Integration Suite (EI Suite) and Real-Time Information Suite (RI Suite), Fab Simulation equips you with the power to align real-time factory analytics with predictive simulation, enabling faster, more accurate decision-making.
Licensing
We provide ready-to-use modules for semiconductor simulation, offered as a licensed software product with configuration and support options. SYSTEMA also offers training and consulting to ensure the successful implementation of simulation models integrated with existing IT systems.
Why SYSTEMA?
For over 30 years, SYSTEMA has provided IT solutions that meet the ever-changing demands of the semiconductor industry. Our solutions are designed to enable rapid customization, individualization, and just-in-time delivery, ensuring fabs remain competitive. With a deep understanding of the challenges manufacturers face, SYSTEMA provides the tools and expertise to ensure that you not only meet today’s goals but also prepare for future growth and innovation.